BIB_ID
421350
Accession number
MA 1352.301
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1852 December 9.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Tavistock House / Thursday Ninth December 1852."
Envelope with Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
Written from "Tavistock House / Thursday Ninth December 1852."
Envelope with Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts."
Provenance
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).
Summary
Suggesting that Bernhard Taüchnitz of Leipzig might be able to suggest "a good place for Charley. He is a publisher by profession (the largest, I believe, in Germany), but is a gentleman of great honor and integrity too, and well acquainted with all the most celebrated men of letters in Europe. I have had many transactions with him, referring to all my books, and am well acquainted with him personally, and with his thoroughly good reputation besides [...] If you approve, I will write to him now. But I shall do nothing until I know that you think well of it."
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